The speech by Putin is very revealing.
They certainly see where this is all going because they have been there.

I don't know about 'smoked': they're still advancing and have only committed 30% of troops so far, but right now this is becoming more protracted than the Russians intended

From what I've read, parts of the Russian military are very modern and up there with the US/China, but other parts are dilapidated. A natural consequence of stifling economic growth for the sake of preserving the regime

Sure bud let's usher in a new cold war with mutual disconnected systems.

And make sure we drive them into China's camp and solely rely on their own banking system SPFS on which they've started development in 2014. As a result of the threat of sanctions, you guessed it right

There already is a new cold war, and they already are in China's camp.

FYI the cold war at it's peak was way worse. Before agreements like START both countries had amassed enough nukes to destroy the world several times over.

This is still true

Amazing what has been coming up on social media from Ukrainians. Russians conscripts crying while citizens are yelling at them to go home...a ukranian offers a russian tank crew that ran out of gas a ride back to russia, tells them that they losing and to surrender. The woman who yelled at the russian conscripts at a check point, told them go home or put seeds in their pockets so flowers will grow where they die.

Russian armor laying all over the place. First time these model russian helicopters have ever been shot down and they downed two. They were prided on never having been shot down.

Syrians are giving ukrainians pro tips, pack up your family pictures, have an exact plan, have someone to grab the pets if your house is attacked, etc.

Anyone who is for this invasion is anti civilization.




New cold war lol. Bless your itty bitty heart.

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Putting the pro-putin in trains and send them to... Russia... Would be an appreciated move here.

And for those living on the other side of ocean i propose pneumatic boats, like the one used by african migrants, to cross Atlantic.

the cold war never ended, it was just taking a break